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i am a fan of the boob tube. i spent hours in front of it when i was a kid. no one thought anything of it then. i took up reading late in life, so i am making up for lost time now trying to read the classics i skipped over in my early years.

my kid likes the boob tube too. she is a reader though, and this much assuages my resultant guilt for passing on my ignorant passion. but tv is what you make of it, and we watch a lot of science shows. she loves sponge bob though, and that is one show no matter how you slice it, it is pure silliness. pure ignorance. pure funny. i guess that is why she likes it.

my beau and i watch a lot of reality tv. we get a kick out of it. but lately, i've been noticing the blurred out bottles of shampoo on jonathan astin's counters. the blurred out product in jesse james' monster garage and it irks me.

i know about specialized marketing, placing car ads during car shows, and cereal ads during kids shows. but i hate it.

on big brother, they have reward contests, and they win subway meals or burger king meals, or whatever, and the whole show the contest, becomes a reality commercial.

i wonder when novels will take on this marketing aspect. perhaps the industry hasn't caught on yet.

i heard the is existing technology to put advertisements in the stars! can you believe it? soon, we won't even be able to walk out in nature and gaze up into the starry skies without seeing ads for achilles condoms or something.

so i am not liking tv so much because of the incessant advertising. tivo is not something we have, but it would be nice to be able to skip over commercials. we've taken to tape recording our shows, and watching the next day so we don't have to watch the commercials. but these product placement ads are really starting to bother me.

the movies don't seem to be caving so much to that pressure, yet.

too bad everything in life is about making money. about advertising. about telling people what they need to make their life better, or to keep up with others.